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...Economics, raises some challenging questions for science educators. What contributions to science have been made by those outside the ‘Western world’? Why should school science reflect the subject's diverse roots? How can you bring contemporary international science alive for your students? Can learning science from a global perspective motivate students and so raise...

...economic opportunities for Black women. Once the straightened hair was exposed to moisture, however, it would revert to its original condition. In 1906 George. E. Johnson’s chemical sodium chloride straightener, also known as a ‘relaxer’, was promoted as a less damaging hair product and a more permanent style condition. During the late 1800s and 1900 advertisements...

...economic changes, bringing with them more, and different, employment opportunities; increases in educational opportunities for girls; and the re-emergence of feminism in the 1960s as, along with other disadvantaged or marginalised groups, women were becoming more powerful and gained a voice. All these factors are interrelated, though different social scientists emphasise...

...Economic and political crises can shape policy as much as the fine ideas of energetic practitioners and innovative research by academics. In England and Wales, new ideas and new priorities have emerged and children, rather than offenders, have come back into the picture. Wales, as a distinct constitutional entity, can justifiably claim to have drawn much of that picture...